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Marcela Landres - Why We Need More Latino Acquisition Editors

I've been probing the internet for informative/insightful video interviews of authors, agents, editors. I came across this interesting interview with Marcela Landres, Acquition Editor. Marcela Landres is the author of "How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You". I'm adding it to my list of must reads after listening to this video. I would have added the video to this page but I wasn't able to. Here's the url to the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3p3dy6TEDg

There were several important points in this interview including the need for more Latino Acquistion Editors, and the need for talented writers to really hone their craft, and lastly:

Buy the Books! Don't share them! Authors don't get paid for readers, they get paid for writers.
Links:

http://www.marcelalandres.com


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  1. Shelia BrewerOctober 7, 2015 at 1:33 PM

    It's better to have the script for me as the bad English listener. Maybe I will buy a book to know the content.

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